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Yahoo! Releases Desktop Search Tool
Hobadee writes "According to The Register, Yahoo! has released a desktop search program to compete with Google's. Apparently Yahoo's version is native to Windows, and thus faster than Google's, but less portable. Other question - what does this mean for things like the Google Search Appliance? Personally, I still like 'find / > index' in a cron script, then just grep 'index'...."
The Windoze search tools are sloooooooow and don't work very well, but most of all, common users simply don't know how to use it.
Oh well, what the hell...
Just this week I was reading about how spyware authors are fighting against each other, and now Google and Yahoo are doing it!
I won't even install the Google Toolbar, there's NO WAY I'm installing something that searches my hard disk and feeds the results *via a remote server* to my browser!
What's wrong with find . -name '*pr0n*' ?
#include <sig.h>
or that matter, in what way does my using mutt make me a Luddite?
In the way that every time I come across some mutt user it's always in the context of bitch bitch bitch line wrap bitch bitch bitch 80 colums bitch bitch bitch html formatted.
For my part, I'm sick of people bitching about my posts just because I don't cater to their fetish for 1980's technology.
I beg you pardon, but you do sound like a troll now. And.. KFG posts a +3 comment about once a day.
Your latest comments seem rather firefull.
Use your fucking brain. The grandparent post was refering to "find / > index". And what kind of an idiot modded the parent post as interesting?
He asked if using mutt made him a luddite
I responded that the mutt users I have encountered have exhibited luddite tendencies
Email has progressed to the point where most modern email programs hold the capability to handle either text or html formatting. The desire of a very vocal minority of users screaming for the majority to not use a useful feature is in fact a classic example of luddite behavior.
Your comparison of comment ratings sounds like someone who is more interested in conformity and groupthink than in honest debate or -heaven forfend- critical analysis of the prevailing (luddite) mindset.
enjoy your pong on your c64 all you like, but don't be surprised when your cries of "OMG U USED HTML" place you squarely in my killfile/spamfilters.
Yes, the same one.
I like diving into upfront-obvious little flamewars now and then. An old habbit of mine.